Jack Tan
System Engneer at Wind River Systems
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Tan is a systems engineer with 8+ years of OS/kernel experience and 26 years in the field, specializing in Linux BSP development and MIPS architecture work across embedded platforms. He has a strong track record porting and maintaining kernels for diverse SoCs (RMI, Cavium, NEC EMMA3P) and subsystems including PCIe, NAND/NOR, networking and security engines, and has ported guest OSes for hypervisors. Comfortable with instruction-level debugging, multi-architecture assembly and performance tuning, he also contributed MIPS/Godson2 patches upstream and led performance optimizations for MPEG/H.264 using SIMD. A hands-on maker with Arduino, Raspberry Pi and microcontroller experience, Jack pairs deep kernel internals knowledge with virtualization and multi-core expertise. Based in Beijing, he documents his work publicly via a technical blog and wiki, reflecting a habit of sharing practical low-level solutions beyond typical corporate outputs.
26 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Chemistry, BS, Chemistry at Nanjing Tech University
English
Github Skills (20)
xtensa10
esp3210
esp-idf10
arduino10
wifi10
espressif9
toolchain9
kernel9
esp82668
soc7
sdk7
iot6
linux-kernel2
mips2
firmware1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
comcat/iDuoDuo
Nov 2014 - Jun 2019
Contributions:41 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
comcat/linux
Feb 2021 - Dec 2025
Linux kernel source tree
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
kernelmanjarokernel-sourcelinuxlinux-kernel
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